[Closed] Placeholder in custom search input text

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[David Gimenez]

Hello. I'm trying to get a placeholder in input text of custom search. I have seen that there is an opction to get a label up, down, after or before, but I need to get a text inside of input text of custom search that shows... search by address

[Nigel]

You want to replace the placeholder text "Enter a location" in the filter input for the centre of the search radius?

It's not possible within the UI, and checking through the code it doesn't appear readily customisable.

I'd say you have 2 options. One is to simply add a little JS to the page which updates the placeholder attribute of the select input with the required text. (The input has an ID of "toolset-maps-distance-center" which you can use to target the correct element.)

Alternatively this is how the string is registered in the code base:

$enter_a_location_translated = esc_attr( __( 'Enter a location', 'toolset-maps' ) );

So you could use the gettext hook to filter the string, or—better—the modified hook to target the toolset-maps text domain, i.e. gettext_toolset-maps:

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/gettext_domain/

[David Gimenez]

Hello Nigel.

Not in enter location. I need to get a placeholder in the input text field. I attach an screenshot.

Thanks in advanced.

[Mateus Getulio]

Hey there,

Thank you for contacting our support.

Can you please try too add the custom jQuery code to try to achieve the desire result?

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
  $("input[name='wpv_post_search']").attr('placeholder',' add your place holder text');
});

For further reference, please check: https://toolset.com/course-lesson/adding-custom-javascript-to-views-templates-and-archives/

Thank you, please let us know how it goes.

Mateus

[David Gimenez]

Hello. First of all thnk for your help.
It doesn't work. Added in js box without any result.

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